Professor Susanne Rath, a researcher who has bravely faced challenges since childhood, kindly granted BrJAC an interview

Susanne Rath is an associate professor in the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where she coordinates the “Laboratório de Bioanalítica Paracelsus”. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry (1983) from the University of Brasília (UnB), a Master’s degree in Chemistry (1986) from Unicamp, and a Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (1990) from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. So far, she has published 110 articles and seven book chapters, had four patents granted, and she has presented over 230 papers at scientific conferences. She supervised 17 master's students, 20 doctorate students and 10 post-docs. In addition, she coordinated 23 research projects supported by Brazilian funding agencies. Prof. Dr. Rath’s primary research is focused on toxic compounds in food, residue depletion studies of veterinary drugs in food-producing animals, development and validation of analytical methods, application of bidimensional chromatography and mass spectrometry, environmental impact assessment of veterinary drugs, antimicrobial resistance and N-nitrosamines in food, cosmetics and drugs. Since 2007, Prof. Rath has been a member of the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2011, Prof. Rath has been a member of the Technical Group on Maximum Residue Limits for Veterinary Drugs in Food of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) of the Ministry of Health of Brazil.